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The Practice of Plea Bargaining Should End

for the suspect as well. For the guilty, it allows for a reduced gamble. That is, the guilty defendant can take a plea and get out...

Case Information About Specific Crimes

can detain and frisk suspects if they have a reasonable suspicion that criminal behaviors have or will occur. The case found that...

Determining the Legitimacy of Plea Arrangements

a residential apartment building in North Carolina to check on the welfare of a tenant at the building whom friends had not heard ...

Are Plea Bargains Just?

An estimated ninety-five percent of criminal convictions occur through the plea bargaining process (Watkins, 2004). Plea bargaini...

Overview of Plea Bargaining

are a process, which usually includes a defendant "pleading guilty to a lesser offense" and thereby receiving a lighter sentence t...

Judges, Juries, and Sentencing in Criminal Justice

The American legal system revolves around two primary players when it comes to criminal sentencing. These players are the...

Amanda Todd and the Lessons She Hoped to Convey

After failing to receive any substantial help after posting her plea on Youtube, this teen ultimately turned to suicide. Was that...

Plea Bargaining

to be effective; if the defendant fails in his commitment to his rehabilitation, he will find himself facing the jail sentence. ...

Plea Bargaining Advantages and Disadvantages

This paper consists of ten pages and assesses the positive and negative aspects of plea bargaining with specific cases discussed. ...

Need for Changes in Plea Bargaining

In five pages this essay argues that plea bargaining as it presently exists in the criminal justice system is ineffective and prop...

Criminal Justice System and Plea Bargaining

In six pages this essay argues against the option of plea bargaining for sex offenders and violent criminals with the Megan Kanka ...

Overview of Plea Bargaining

This paper consists of nine pages and defines plea bargaining in an overview of this criminal justice procedure. Seven sources ar...

Can a Defense be Offered for Murder of a Spouse?

In six pages this paper discusses a provocation plea and how it can be used successfully in cases regarding homicide of a spouse. ...

Does Plea Bargaining Work Successfully?

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses whether or not plea bargaining successfully upholds justice or merely serves to und...

Judge's Role in US Plea Bargaining Process

This paper examines the diminishing role of the judge in the American plea bargaining process in 5 pages. Two sources are cited i...

Ajas, Phoinix, and Odysseus' Pleas to Achilles to Return to Battle in Homer's 'The Iliad'

In five pages this paper compares these pleas in an analysis of 'The Iliad' by Homer. There are no other sources listed....

Supplication in "The Iliad"

its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...

Three Legal Questions

accused and the prosecutor takes two forms in the United States: a charge bargain and a sentence bargain. The former lessens the ...

A Plea for a Native American Alliance

us have done so and we have witnessed the strength of the alliance. Consider, for example, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and Potiacs ...

Psalm 54 Exegesis

verse is the Vow of Praise: "I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good" (v 6). ...

Justic and Ethics IV

possibility that he could be acquitted and go free. He needs an attorney who will advise him properly. In Mr. K, Defendant B doe...

Lysistrata and Medea

revenge, but she is primarily using the only tools she has, those of her position as a woman and a mother. With Lysistrata we a...

Media and Crime

whether it is real life or on television. The primary concern of course is televisions effects on children as they are malleable a...

Duties of a Paralegal Involving Sentencing Issues

calculations, as one can see, do not seem to be standardized from one state to the next. There have been proposals to standardize ...

Edgar Allan Poe/Theme of Insanity

manages to resurrect herself momentarily from her entombment before falling dead upon her brother, causing his death also. The hou...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

how the sane are seen as insane. Once a person is in such an institution it seems as though they are automatically pegged as insan...

Oedipus’ Trial

and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking th...

Abolishing the Insanity Defense

suggest that its special nature puts it in a different class, so to speak, from other defenses that have to do with the causes of ...

Seven Soliloquies of Hamlet: A Journey into Madness

things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...